I've been searching for something like this for our shop. Pretty sure I just found our solution. Appreciate you sharing this, and enjoyed the content as always!
Yeah, I'd originally thought that's how I might approach it...but as it turned out, that little 35W panel is good enough to allow it to fully charge the internal battery, even when it's mostly cloudy skies. I guess we'll see long-term in the winter with shorter days how it does...
Looks like a good replacement. That outdoor fixture didn't look like an incandescent. Does it have any kind of ballast? Normally I'd expect that fixture to have a mercury vapor (bright white) or possibly sodium vapor (pinkish/orangish/yellowish) bulb. Those technologies are more closely related to fluorescent than to incandescent and they provide much more light per watt than incandescent. LED has surpassed them, at least in high quality LED lighting.
@@ReeWrayOutdoorsSorry, if I wasn't clear in what I was asking. I was wondering if you can connect the lights to your solar set up in the barn after the battery provided with light dies? Does the light have a flooded battery or lithium. Thanks again
Awesome work! I did something similar where our backdoor auto/sensor light was 225W bulb... replaced wsith 15W LED. Save .5-1Kwh/day.
I've been searching for something like this for our shop. Pretty sure I just found our solution. Appreciate you sharing this, and enjoyed the content as always!
Thanks for the review!
Too bad they don't provide the extension cable so you can mount the solar panel at another location for collecting the better sunlight.
Yeah, I'd originally thought that's how I might approach it...but as it turned out, that little 35W panel is good enough to allow it to fully charge the internal battery, even when it's mostly cloudy skies. I guess we'll see long-term in the winter with shorter days how it does...
Looks like a good replacement.
That outdoor fixture didn't look like an incandescent. Does it have any kind of ballast? Normally I'd expect that fixture to have a mercury vapor (bright white) or possibly sodium vapor (pinkish/orangish/yellowish) bulb. Those technologies are more closely related to fluorescent than to incandescent and they provide much more light per watt than incandescent. LED has surpassed them, at least in high quality LED lighting.
Do you think you would be able to wire it into your main power? Thanks for the upload
@@fraydnot probably not. You would have put an AC adapter on it to convert the 120V AC to whatever DC voltage the lights actually require.
@@ReeWrayOutdoorsSorry, if I wasn't clear in what I was asking. I was wondering if you can connect the lights to your solar set up in the barn after the battery provided with light dies? Does the light have a flooded battery or lithium. Thanks again
It looks like the top of the light would collect water. Is there an opening so that it can drain?
@EBuff75 actually it sits an angle such that water runs off without pooling (as far as I can tell)